I was in CompUSA yesterday and they were showing some other aquarium program on all their monitors (don't remember the name). The 3D was very nice on it. It had a moving anemone. The fish looked pretty good. And if you were to screen cap it I'm sure it would be amazing.
BUT. Big BUT here. The fish movements were HIDEOUS. Ruined the whole thing. All it did was remind me to come home and fire up the widescreen MA2 which I hadn't done in a while.
This, BTW has been the difference between Sachs and Prolific's Sachs-based-Engine spin offs. A lot of people out there can do good 3d modeling. Some of them can even get the lighting and arrangement to look pretty decent. But NO ONE has pulled the whole package together like the Marine and Goldfish aquariums. No one else seems to aproach it as art.
So on that note. Get me a 3d Saltwater background damnit.
(J/K, I know it's on hold, just hoping...)